Re: GUI Interface

Christopher Browne wrote:
>> Also most DBAs are not hard core OSS programmers and anyone coming
>> from a commercial system is more than likely used to running the
>> admin tools on windows.
>
> We have a whole department of DBAs, *none* of whom have Microsoft on
> their desktops.
>
> Further, the Big, Important Systems that we administer consciously
> hide behind firewalls such that the user interface Shall Be Usable Via
> SSH.
>
> Purty graphical tools just don't appear on our radar as being
> interesting.

well, ssh has for a long time the option to forward ports to
you. So this isnt really an argument pro/con gui tools :-)

Personally I find psql for some and pgadmin3 for other
tasks used the same time a good couple.

Regards
Tino